Apparatus for



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHILANDER GILBERT, OF ALEXANDRIA, OHIO.

APPARATUS FOR LOADING LOGS ON WAGONS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 18,242, dated September 22, 1857.

T0 all 'whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, PHILANDER GILBERT, of Alexandria, in the county of Licking and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Loading Logs Upon Vagons; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and eXact description thereof, reference heing had to the accompanying drawing, making a part of this specification, which is a perspective view of my improved apparatus with a log in the act of being loaded.

The apparatus is constructed and placed upon the carriage of a wagon of common construction which has holsters and vertical stakes, in the following manner. Two longitudinal sills A are furnished with gains B, which tit upon the holsters of the wagon close to the stakes, eXtra gains are provided to admit of the sills being used when the distance between the holsters is increased or diminished. Upon and at right angles to the sills are placed two log bearers O which lock upon the sills by gains which also keep the sills in position against the vertical stakes. The bearers C have mortises D through which the stakes pass and in which they are secured by pins E passing through the bearers and stakes. Ooncaves are made at F to receive the log. The upper sides of the beams are intended to he higher than the wheels of the wagon. The hars O pass freely through mortises in the sills and form at one end hearings for the ournals of a windlass operated by a lever and which has a ratchet wheel I and pawl K. A rope or chain is attached to the windlass W which in operation ispassed over the upper side and around the log on the opposite side of the wagon and hooked into a ring L. The weight of the log keeping the windlass in position. But when the log is to he taken from the other side of the carriage the bars C are drawn out and re-inserted in the mortises from the opposite direction. Two skids may he placed to form an inclined plane to clear the wheels. After the log vis raised, and placed in the concaves the rope can be hooked in the opposite hook, and tightened by the windlass to secure the log upon the wagon.

Having thus fully described my improvement I do not claim any of t-he parts separately considered; but

IVhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The peculiar construction and arrangements of the portable frame herein described when combined with a windlass, and its appurtenances capable of being shifted to either side of a wagon in the manner and for the purpose specified.

PHILANDER GILBERT.

In the presence of- OHAs. EVERETT, GILBERT TowLEs. 

